EVALUATION OF POST

CONSTRUCTIONAL ECBC
COMPLIANCE AND INDOOR AIR
QUALITY OF A GREEN BUILDING: A
CASE STUDY
Presented by
Ambikadevi V
M
M3 EE
CET
 INTRODUCTION
• Change in climate, caused by the release of greenhouse gases -
greatest threats.

• Share of the global energy consumption of India is rising.

• Buildings - 40 to 45% energy consumption.

• This can be reduced by improving efficiency.

• Building sector - a potential sector to meet the challenges of global

energy demand and climate change.(saving potential)
 INDIA’S COMMERCIAL REAL
ESTATE AT 3 METROS
 Mumbai – India’s financial centre

• Limited space within the city for new construction. Old

industrial/factory sites sold to private developers.

 Banglore - India’s IT centre

• Annual demand of office space: 7million sq.ft.

 Delhi – Capital city

• Main source of demand – IT companies.

 OFFICE SPACE demand is driven by increasing share of
service sectors.

All India office market:

• 70% - IT services companies

• 15% - financial service providers & pharmaceutical sector.

• 15%- by other sector

 Shopping centres
• Most commercial buildings have EPI of 200 to 400kWh/sqm/year

• Similar buildings in North America and Europe have EPI of less

than 150kWh/sqm/year.

• Energy-conscious building design has been shown to reduce EPI

to 100 to 150kWh/sqm/year – environmentally-sensitive
corporates.

• Large scale energy-efficient building design is limited due to split

incentives – builders fear that they would bear the costs, while
tenants would enjoy benefits.
 ECBC
 ECBC set minimum energy efficiency standards for design
and construction.

 ECBC encourage energy efficient design so that

• It does not constrain the building function, comfort, health

or productivity of the occupant.

• Life cycle cost (construction + energy cost) are minimized

LEVELS OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY

• Energy Conservation Building Code Compliant Building

(ECBC Building)

• Energy Conservation Building Code Plus Building

(ECBC+ Building)

• Super Energy Conservation Building Code Building (Super

ECBC Building)
 LITERATURE REVIEW
Performance and rating of Hemant Kumar Compared LEED and GRIHA rating
residential green building,2015 Vaishali Sahu system and recommended a new rating
system for small residential building.

Design of Green Building: A Geeridhari Patle This study briefs the

Case Study for Composite Vaidehi A. Dakwale analysis and design approach for green
Climate, R. V. Ralegaonkar building.

Role of Green Buildings in Devarshi Tathagat The importance of sustainable

Sustainable Construction-
Need, Challenges and Scope in
the Indian Scenario ,2015
Dr.Ramesh D. Dod construction, discusses role of energy
efficiency in green buildings in Indian
context to reduce the energy
consumption and environmental
degradation through Green House Gas
emission (GHG).
 OBJECTIVES

• To evaluate ECBC compliance of Energy Management

Centre(EMC), Trivandrum.

• To grade the EMC building as per the code ECBC 2017.

• To compare the indoor and outdoor air quality of a green

building.

• To compare the indoor air quality of a green building and

conventional office building.
 METHODOLOGY
 STUDY AREA

Green building of Energy Management Centre, Trivandrum.

Location: Sreekariyam (80 54‟ 58” N latitude, 760 9‟ 09” E

longitude),Trivandrum.

Total built up area - 4030.73 sq.m.

Building type: Daytime bussiness building (small office)

Climate : warm and humid climate (NBC)

Energy Management Centre, Trivandrum
 SPECIAL FEATURES
 Cool roof

 Solar panel

 Green coverage

 Waste management

 Solar Water Heater

 Air Vent and Turbo ventilation

 Rain Water Harvesting

 Energy Efficient Equipment

 Double wall
 Cool roof Courtyard

Waste collection bins Air vents

EVALUATION OF ECBC COMPLIANCE
OF THE BUILDING
The provisions of ECBC code applicable to:

• Building envelope.

• Mechanical systems and equipment, including heating,

ventilating, and air conditioning, service hot water
heating.

• Interior and exterior lighting.

• Electrical power and motors, and renewable energy

systems.
To comply with ECBC Code, buildings should

• Have an Energy Performance Index Ratio (EPI Ratio)

less than or equal to 1

• Meet all mandatory requirements.

 ENERGY PERFORMANCE INDEX
 It is the annual energy consumption in kilowatt-hours per
square meter of the building.

 EPI is calculated based on:

• Prescriptive Method including Building Envelope Trade-off

Method

• Whole Building Performance Method.

 EPI RATIO

Maximum allowed EPI ratio for Office (regular use) building in

warm and humid climate is
ECBC -1
ECBC+ - 0.86
SuperECBC - 0.76
 WHOLE BUILDING PERFORMANCE
METHOD
 Mandatory requirement : All mandatory requirement
shall be met.

 Simulation requirement : The simulation software is

a computer-based program for the analysis of energy
consumption in buildings.
 MANDATORY REQUIREMENT

 Building envelope

 Comfort systems and controls

 Lighting and controls

 Electrical and renewable energy systems

 BUILDING ENVELOPE

 Fenestration: U-factor, SHGC, VLT

 Opaque construction: U-factor

 Daylighting: UDI

 Building envelop sealing

 COMFORT SYSYTEM AND
CONTROLS
 Ventilation- Natural ventilation design requirement,
mechanical ventilation air quantity design requirement.
 Minimum space conditioning equipment efficiencies:
Chillers, Unitary,split,packaged air-conditioners, VRF.
 Controls: Time clock, Temperature controls, Occupancy
controls, Fan controls, Dampers.
 Piping and ductwork: Piping insulation, Ductwork and
plenum insulation.
 System balancing: Air system balancing, Hydronic
system balancing.

 Condensors: Condensor locations.

 Service water heating: Solar water heating, Heating

equipment efficiency, Other water heating system,
Piping insulation, Heat traps, Swimming pools.
 LIGHTING AND CONTROLS

 Lighting control: Atomatic lighting shutoff, Space

control, Control in day light area, Centralized control
for ECBC+ and Super ECBC buildings, Exterior
lighting control.

 Exit signs
 ELECTRICAL AND RENEWABLE
ENERGY SYSTEM
 Transformers – Maximum allowable power transmission losses,
Measurement and reporting of the transformer losses, Voltage drop.

 Energy efficiency motors

 Diesel generator sets

 Check-metering and monitoring

 Power factor correction

 Power distribution system

 Uninterrupted power supply(UPS)

 Renewable energy system

 SIMULATION REQUIREMENT

 Energy simulation program

 Climatic data: temperature & humidity

 Calculating the energy consumption of

Proposed design and Standard design: Energy
simulation model
 INDOOR AIR QUALITY
• Sampling period: Nov2017 to Mar2018(Once in a week).

• Parameters to be evaluated: Out side and inside wall temperature,

relative humidity, wind velocity, PM10, PM2.5, SO2, CO2, CO,
NO2, NO, TVOC, formaldehyde, microbial contamination.

• Buildings : Energy Management centre and another building in the

same compound.

• Sampling points: One point in the compound, one room each from
4 directions of all floors for both the buildings.
 REFERENCES
• Prasad Vaidya, John Melchert, Vinay Ghatti, Aalok Deshmukh, Sanyogita
Manu,Sanjay Seth, Girja Shankar and Shabnam Bassi, “Simulations without
Experts: ECOnirman - a Whole Building Code Compliance Tool for India” ,
2012, ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings,pp 298-
306.

• Energy Conservation Building Code, 2017, Bureau of Energy Efficiency.

• National Building Code of India, Bureau of Indian Standards, 2005.

• Energy Conservation Building Code, User Guide, Bureau of Energy

Efficiency,2009.

• Green building A to Z Understanding the language of the Green building,

• Hemant Kumar and Vaishali Sahu, ”Performance and rating of residential
green building”, 2015, Civil Engineering and Urban Planning: An
International Journal(CiVEJ) Vol.2,No.2, pp47-53.

• Geeridhari Patle, Vaidehi A. Dakwale, R. V. Ralegaonkar, “Design of

Green Building: A Case Study for Composite Climate”, International
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9622Vol. 1, Issue 2, pp.388-393